Norway Chess 2013 Blitz Event

The Norway Chess 2013 super-tournament opened yesterday with a blitz competition to determine the pairings for the main event.

Sergey Karjakin took first place with 6½/9 points, with Magnus Carlsen second, Vishy Anand third and Hikaru Nakamura fourth, all with 6 points (separated only by tie-break rules - Carlsen by most games with the black pieces, Anand with 2 victories with black against Nakamura's 1).

In-form Veselin Topalov finished in a somewhat surprising last place with just 1/9.